Famous Virgo Celebrities

• Baumbach, Noah (September 3)

  The director of 'The Squid and the Whale and 'Marriage Story'

• Benchley, Robert (September 15)

  1930s New Yorker theater critic and witty essayist

• Bong Joon Ho (September 14)

  The Oscar-winning director of Parasite

• Borges, Jorge Luis (August 24)

  Author of the short story collection Ficciones

• Brott, Armin (August 24)

  The author of the parenting book The Expectant Father

• Carter, Asa Earl (September 4)

  Author of The Education of Little Tree

• Christie, Agatha (September 15)

  Author of Murder on the Orient Express

• Cleaver, Eldridge (August 31)

  The Black Panther who wrote Soul on Ice

• Cooper, James Fenimore (September 15)

  The American novelist who wrote The Last of the Mohicans

• Dahl, Roald (September 13)

  The author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Davies, Robertson (August 28)

  Author of Fifth Business

• Desai, Kiran (September 3)

  The author of the novel The Inheritance of Loss

• Dove, Rita (August 28)

  U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-95

• Forester, C.S. (August 27)

  The author of the Horatio Hornblower series of novels

• Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (September 16)

  The Harvard professor and African-American scholar who was arrested for disorderly conduct in 2009

• Golding, William (September 19)

  The Nobel-winning author of Lord of the Flies

• Green, John (August 24)

  The author of The Fault in Our Stars

• Hall, Donald (September 20)

  The New England poet who wrote Ox-Cart Man

• Hawkins, Paula (August 26)

  The author of 'The Girl on the Train'

• Hijuelos, Oscar (August 24)

  The author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

• Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr. (August 29)

  Author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

• Isherwood, Christopher (August 26)

  The author of 'Goodbye to Berlin,' which became 'Cabaret'

• Johnson, Samuel (September 18)

  Author of 1755's A Dictionary of the English Language

• Kesey, Ken (September 17)

  Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• King, Stephen (September 21)

  The author of scary bestsellers

• Lawrence, D.H. (September 11)

  Author of Lady Chatterly's Lover

• Lem, Stanislaw (September 12)

  The author of Solaris

• Locke, Alain LeRoy (September 13)

  The African-American editor called "the father of the Harlem Renaissance"

• Martin, George R. R. (September 20)

  The author of A Game of Thrones

• Mencken, H.L. (September 12)

  Famously acerbic columnist for the Baltimore Sun

• Miller, Joaquin (September 8)

  "The Poet of the Sierras"

• Miéville, China (September 6)

  The author The City & The City and Perdido Street Station

• O. Henry (September 11)

  American short story writer

• Oliver, Mary (September 10)

  The poet who wrote 'American Primitive'

• Perry, Tyler (September 13)

  Madea in his film Diary of a Mad Black Woman

• Pirsig, Robert (September 6)

  Author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

• Ryan, Kay (September)

  The 16th Poet Laureate consultant to the Library of Congress

• Shelley, Mary (August 30)

  The author of Frankenstein

• Sinclair, Upton (September 20)

  Socialist author of 1906's The Jungle

• Sitwell, Edith (September 7)

  The eccentric poet who wrote 1941's "Still Falls the Rain"

• Smiley, Tavis (September 13)

  Host of The Tavis Smiley Show on TV and radio

• Strayed, Cheryl (September 17)

  The author of the memoir Wild

• Tanning, Dorothea (August 25)

  The surrealist artist who did Birthday and was married to Max Ernst

• Wells, H. G. (September 21)

  Author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds

• Williams, William Carlos (September 17)

  Author of the poetic epic Paterson

• Wright, Charles (August 25)

  The U.S. Poet Laureate, 2014-2015

• Wright, Richard (September 4)

  Author of Native Son

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